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KeaboUltra t1_jacuo7f wrote

Reading "Lunar Standard Time" would be so fucking cool. knowing what time it is on the moon and what the schedule it would typically be since there probably wont be a Day/Night cycle and definitely no seasons.

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coffeemonkeypants t1_jad934q wrote

There is a day/night cycle, but it's 29.5 earth days long from 'noon' to 'noon', so they'll live in darkness two earth weeks at a time

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KeaboUltra t1_jadbqiw wrote

THat's true but i thought any colony built there wouldn't want to be purely in the sun or dark side of the moon

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coffeemonkeypants t1_jadmwt5 wrote

There is no dark side of the moon. It's a misconception. The moon rotates just like the earth does, but it takes nearly a month to rotate once. It's in nearly perfect sync with the earth, which is why we only ever see the one side. But when it's a 'new moon ', aka fully dark to us, the other side is in full sun. You're seeing the moon day happen every month with the phases of the moon. So any moon base is gonna be dark two weeks a month.

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